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In the early days of the Obama administration, my Washington Post colleague Shailagh Murray and I used to trade tales of the arrogance of White House officials more interested in their insular club and the prestige of their positions than in the responsibility they had.

By Dana Milbank
The Washington Post
|58 mins ago

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A drug-related HIV outbreak in rural Indiana has prompted Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to declare a public health emergency and take the unusual step of instituting a 30-day needle exchange program in the hardest-hit area. Needle exchanges allow intravenous drug users to trade in used needles for sterile ones. There’s widespread evidence going back decades that such programs are effective at preventing the spread of HIV and other blood-borne diseases, that they encourage drug users to seek...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sarah Dieffenbacher is on a debt strike. She’s refusing to make payments on the more than $100,000 in federal and private loans she says she owes for studies at a for-profit college that she now considers so worthless she doesn’t include it on her resume.

By KIMBERLY HEFLING
AP Education Writer
|2 hrs ago

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As part of a group of Michigan State University graduate students studying social work, I spent nine days travelling the state of Puebla, Mexico. The group visited county, state, and federal social service agencies. We were educated about the modalities of addressing poverty. In Mexico, 25 percent of children live with food poverty. With few resources, the government provides two to three meals per day for all children attending school.